Re: [HEADSUP] Deprecation of the ftp support in pkg

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 10:22:27PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 20.01.2022 21:47, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 09:43:38AM -0500, James E Keenan wrote:
> >> On 1/20/22 9:25 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> >>> Hello everyone,
> >>>
> >>> We plan to remove the support for fetching packages over ftp for the next
> >>> releases of pkg (probably 1.18) if you have a strong reason to use ftp which
> >>> cannot be fixed by switching to any other supported protocols like ssh or http,
> >>> please do share.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Will sftp continue to be supported?
> > 
> > sftp has never been supported and if you meant ftps, it will be removed along
> > with ftp, we have our own protocol on top of ssh.
> 
> It should be possible to keep one's own pack of files and share them for local set of machines
> for pkg to access and do that with base system only. With FTP, it is possible now.
> Will it be still possible without FTP? I consider this reason is strong enough.
> 
> 

you can use ssh for that.

Bapt